Deadlines and Work Practices in New Media Development: Its about time
Authors
Joan Greenbaum
Dagny Stuedahl
Keywords:
Actor networks, boundary objects, end-users, content providers, deadlines, designers, new media, programmers, participation, work practices
Abstract
This paper goes behind the screen to view the interaction and coordination among professionals involved in commercial software development and web design for new media. In order to explore what is new with new media, focus is put upon the practices and conditions with which new media products are built. - It focuses on the speed-up of time constraints and new and fluid divisions among professionals in the work practices of design and production. The authors use an Actor Network approach to analyze moments in time where the development process is more interactive among development professionals and could potentially be opened up to actual end-user participation. The article also traces some materials in the development process which function as boundary objects across professional groups.
